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Re:WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers by dragonwriter on Thursday December 22, 2022 @01:52AM (#34090594)
> "JVM but for everyone who isn't a Java developer" would be good but WebAssembly isn't really suited for it. It works for some static native-code targeting languges (C, C++, Rust, Zig, etc) but doesn't work well for languages that most application developers use (.NET languages, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Clojure, Java, Ruby, etc)

.NET/Java/Clojure, maybe not. Ruby and Python work via an interpeter for the platform, just like they do on JVM/.Net, except that, unlike JVM/.NET, in both cases they can use the normal C-based interpreter, compiled for WASM.

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Re:WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers by fulafel on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:24AM (#34091079)
You can do it, but it remains to be seen if we get a lot of use cases where there are more positive than negative tradeoffs from targeting a VM implementation to WebAssembly and then running a VM inside a VM that way. I guess eg Python could be useful in cases where you want to use it as a glue language between WebAssembly components...
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